On 28 Oct 2001, John Hasler wrote: > Mark writes: > > Security isn't always such an issue. > > Stability is. Think of the damage a crashing Gnome application could do > running as root. More important, though, is the bad habit this sort of
Sure, but I don't use Gnome, and I don't touch fancy window managers. I'm not aware of any particular stability problems that, say, emacs or mtr or whatever have as X applications over their behavior as console applications - are there any? My X and wm for root stuff certainly seems rock solid, but maybe it's mine is more stable than usual because I'm the sort of person who throws 'Option "slow_edodram"' etc. into XF86Config in wanting stability over performance. > thing creates. There is nothing you need to do as root that can't be done > from a console. True. I certainly find that the convenience far outweighs any risk, though, given that in the past few years I've not yet encountered any risk where some root operation was made more dangerous through use of X! For people with more unstable installations, I'd agree with you, but that's not everybody. -- Mark
